own salvation, and ends up promoting a dehumanized form of development.

Only

through an encounter with God are we able to see in the other something more than
just another creature, to recognize the divine image in the other, thus truly coming

to discover him or her and to mature in a love that “becomes concern and care for
the other.” (11)

Paul VI: “evangelization would not be complete if it did not take account of the

unceasing interplay of the Gospel and of man’s concrete life, both personal and
social.” “Between evangelization and human advancement – development and

liberation – there are in fact profound links”. Testimony to Christ’s charity, through
works of justice, peace and development, is part and parcel of evangelization,

because Jesus Christ, who loves us, is concerned with the whole person. (15)

Paul VI taught that progress, in its origin and essence, is first and foremost a
vocation: “in the design of God, every man is called upon to develop and fulfil

himself, for every life is a vocation.” If development were concerned with merely
technical aspects of human life, and not with the meaning of man’s pilgrimage

through history in company with his fellow human beings, nor with identifying the
goal of that journey, then the Church would not be entitled to speak on it. (16)

To regard development as a vocation is to recognize, on the one hand, that it derives

from a transcendent call, and, on the other hand, that it is incapable, on its own, of
supplying its ultimate meaning. (16)